[sane-devel] Sanning from command line - need find out correct device name

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 13:47:10 UTC 2007


you are using a binary only driver provided by the vendor? i would
suggest that you ask them.

allan

On 10/4/07, rog70 <rog70 at freemail.hu> wrote:
>
> PC: Debian Etch, samba + CUPS server (no GUI), sane-utils installed
> 3 printer on CUPS:
> 1. Samsung CPL-500 color laser
> 2. HP DeskJet 5150
> 3. Samsung SCX-4200 (all-in-one)
> CUPS is handling the 3 printers without fuss -> raw queue, windows drivers
> on the clients
>
> scanner: Samsung SCX-4200 multifunctional device, (laser printer + scanner).
> Id like to share the scanner with saned for the WinXP clients. I DO NOT want
> scan from the linux box directly.
>
> installed the latest Samsung unified Linux driver. It complained a little
> about the lack of X, but finished without problem. installed sane-utils.
> Problems:
>
> -sane-find-scanner find the scanner
> -scanimage -L output:
> device `smfp:SAMSUNG SCX-4200 Series on USB:1' is a SAMSUNG SCX-4200 Series
> on USB:1 Flatbed Scanner
> -lsusb output:
> Bus 004 Device 040: ID 04e8:341b Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
> Bus 004 Device 037: ID 04e8:3248 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 017: ID 03f0:6204 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 5150c
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> first: SCX-4200, second:CPL-500
>
> -BUT when i try scan from comand line (for testing purpose only):
> scanimage > /tmp/image output
> parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0xff
> parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff
> parport 0x378: You gave this address, but there is probably no parallel port
> there!
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)
>
> and the color laser wakes up from sleeping. I seems to me, that the pc
> probes the wrong port for the scanner. I tried "scanimage -d smfp" without
> any success. I cannot find out the corrent device name for the SCX scanner.
>
> Im a newbie in sane (and USB devices), so any help will be greetly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Roger
>
> PS: sorry for my poor english.
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